The relative importance of environmental factors and host factors in explaining variation in
prevalence and intensity of flea parasitism in small mammal communities is poorly …

We investigated host and flea species composition across different habitats during dry and
rainy seasons in the Western Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. During both seasons …

Biodiversity loss can alter disease transmission; however, the magnitude and direction of
these effects vary widely across ecosystems, scales, and pathogens. Here we …

Small mammals host diverse communities of parasites including fleas. There is considerable
research interest in effects of parasites on their hosts. Host specificity, prevalence and …

We studied the effect of host gender and body mass on species richness of flea
infracommunities in nine rodent host species from three biomes (temperate zone of central …

The distribution of parasites among individual hosts is characterised by high variability that
is believed to be a result of variations in host traits. To find general patterns of host traits …

Understanding why some individuals are more prone to carry parasites and spread
diseases than others is a key question in biology. Although epidemiologists and disease …

Host–parasite association among 58 flea species parasitizing 40 mammal species in the
Great Basin Desert of the western United States was investigated. Increased flea species …

In Uganda, the West Nile region is the primary epidemiologic focus for plague. The aims of
this study wereto 1) describe flea–host associations within a plague-endemic region of …

The abundance of a given species in a community is likely to depend on both the total
abundance and diversity of other species making up that community. A large number of co …